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Aurora visible above a building and observation platform with two people silhouetted at night

MIT students study plasma physics beneath Alaska’s aurora

Student-led expeditions use distributed instruments to observe auroral structures and probe space plasma in real-world conditions.

May 23, 2026
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Fast-spinning black holes narrow the search for dark matter particles

April 13, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Muon g-2 Experiment

The Miraculous Measurement of the Muon

April 12, 2021
Categories: Faculty

Nine MIT students awarded 2021 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

April 12, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students, Biophysics
Courtesy of Weizmann Institute of Science

Entropy measurements reveal exotic effect in “magic-angle” graphene

April 6, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
Photo of columns and balconies in MIT Lobby 7 with the etched words

School of Science announces 2021 Infinite Mile awards

April 5, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Admin Staff
Image of three exoplanets.

If astronomers see isoprene in the atmosphere of an alien world, there’s a good chance there’s life there

April 4, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Sara Seager with a telescope in her yard

Why ‘The Hunt for Planet B’ Is An Impossible Task – But One That’s Already Changing Our World

April 1, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Provoked by Zeno’s Paradoxes

March 31, 2021
Categories: Faculty

Achieving the Endless Frontier

March 29, 2021
Categories: In The News, Education, Students
A cluster of JCVI-syn3.0 cells, showing spherical structures of varying sizes(scale bar, 200 nm).

Artificial life made in lab can grow and divide like natural bacteria

March 28, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Students, Biophysics
Ion beams shooting at proton clouds.

Physicists flip particle accelerator setup to gain a clearer view of atomic nuclei

March 28, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment

Mission to Jupiter’s icy moon comfirmed

March 27, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment
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